Mark Anspach
Contributing Writer and Head of Social Engineering Division
Mark Anspach is an anthropologist and social theorist whose work is devoted to the rational understanding of irrational behavior. After undergraduate study at Harvard, where he served as political editor of The Crimson, he moved to Europe and joined a research center in the up-and-coming field of applied epistemology.
He is the editor of Oedipus Unbound: Selected Writings on Rivalry and Desire by René Girard (Stanford University Press, 2004) and a contributor to Mimesis and Science: Empirical Research on Imitation and the Mimetic Theory of Culture and Religion (MSU Press, 2011).
His mimetic theory blog has featured an anthropological analysis of the Arab revolts, The Arab Rulers' New Clothes and Lynching Qaddafi.
